Coach Todd DeSorbo has announced the UVA men’s and women’s 2019-20 swimming and diving schedule. The Cavaliers’ schedule is highlighted by three home competitions.

“We are looking forward to building on our success from last season and in order to do this we have scheduled a challenging series of meets for the 2019-20 season,” DeSorbo said. “We will be on the road to take on some quality competition throughout the year and this will put us in challenging situations, which will in turn set us up to be successful at our focus competitions, ACCs and NCAAs. Further, this is an Olympic Year with U.S. Trials set for late June. Our goal is to put our squad in the best possible position to peak at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha.

“It’s an exciting time for our teams. They are improving and developing at a quick rate and our hope is that our competition schedule will allow for the further development of our programs. We are excited to add some new squads to our schedule this year with USC, Michigan and Wisconsin, and as always our teams will be motivated to perform well against the mainstays of Virginia Tech, NC State and North Carolina.”

The Cavaliers will host three home meets during the season including the team’s first head-to-head competition against Wisconsin since 2014. Virginia will also welcome ACC foes NC State and North Carolina in back-to-back competitions at the AFC Aquatic Center to close out the regular season.

In addition to the Wolfpack and Tar Heels, the Cavaliers will compete in an ACC matchup against Virginia Tech, while adding non-conference dual meets against Michigan, Tennessee and Auburn to the schedule.

Virginia will compete at Southern California’s Trojan Invite, the Tennessee Invitational and the Winter Nationals (Atlanta, Ga.) as the UVA divers travel to the Georgia Tech Diving Invitational and Tennessee Diving Invitational.

Virginia will close the year with the ACC Championships in Greensboro, N.C. The NCAA Zone A Diving Championships will be held in Morgantown, W.V., before the Cavaliers head to the women’s NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga., and the men’s national meet in Indianapolis, Ind.

Virginia will also send members of the team to the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha in June.

Team of Destiny: Inside UVA Basketball's improbable run

Team of Destiny: Inside Virginia Basketball’s Run to the 2019 National Championship, by Jerry Ratcliffe and Chris Graham, is available for $25. The book, with additional reporting by Zach Pereles, Scott Ratcliffe and Scott German, will take you from the aftermath of the stunning first-round loss to UMBC in 2018, and how coach Tony Bennett and his team used that loss as the source of strength, through to the ACC regular-season championship, the run to the Final Four, and the thrilling overtime win over Texas Tech to win the 2019 national title, the first in school history.

Subscribe

Augusta Free Press content is available for free, as it has been since 2002, save for a disastrous one-month experiment at putting some content behind a pay wall back in 2009. (We won’t ever try that again. Almost killed us!) That said, it’s free to read, but it still costs us money to produce. The site is updated several times a day, every day, 365 days a year, 366 days on the leap year. (Stuff still happens on Christmas Day, is what we’re saying there.) AFP does well in drawing advertisers, but who couldn’t use an additional source of revenue? From time to time, readers ask us how they can support us, and we usually say, keep reading. Now we’re saying, you can drop us a few bucks, if you’re so inclined.

Subscribe

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 106,970 other subscribers

Email Address

Augusta Free Press launched in 2002. The site serves as a portal into life in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia – in a region encompassing Augusta County, Albemarle County and Nelson County and the cities of Charlottesville, Staunton and Waynesboro, at the entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway, Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park and the Appalachian Trail.